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Veteran Wang Shun Continues to Make an Impact in 200 Individual Medley As China moves toward the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, it features a quality crop of rising stars. Headlining that group is Yu Zidi, the 13-year-old multi-event talent who just missed several individual podium finishes at l...

Ranking the Best Men’s Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 202...

Post Olympics Rankings: Swimming World’s Top 25 Male Swimmers The title of the top female swimmer in the world has shifted on several occasions this year. Katie Ledecky, Ariarne Titmus and Kaylee McKeown have all been considered for that spot throughout the past several months, but at the Olympics, ...

Pre-World Championships Rankings: The 25 Best Male Swimmers in the World Right Now Since Michael Phelps walked away from swimming for good after the 2016 Olympics, one individual has held the title of "world's best male swimmer" for almost six years. Regular readers of this website will have no trou...

12-Year-Old Yu Zidi Blasts Incredible 4:35.53 in 400 IM at Chinese Nationals; Wang Shun Sets Championship Record Yu Zidi, the 12-year-old phenom who has attracted the attention of the swimming world for her precocious talent, capped the Chinese National Championships in impressive fashion on Saturda...

World Championships: Leon Marchand 200 IM Top Seed to Cap Double The 200 fly/200 IM double was no problem for Leon Marchand Tuesday evening in Budapest at the 2022 FINA World Championships. After grabbing the silver medal in the men’s 200 butterfly, the Frenchman turned around to batter the field in...

Tokyo Flashback: Wang Shun Storms to Gold in 200 IM; Michael Andrew Fades to Fifth One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the championship finals – each on th...

In an epic race, Japan broke the Games Record with a 7:05.17, holding off a late charge from China who finished with the silver at 7:05.45. Both teams finished under the Games Record that Japan broke in 2014 at 7:06.74. Katsuhiro Matsumoto was out very fast in the anchor leg to try and swim away fro...

Qin Haiyang, Wang Shun, Yang Junxuan Tested Positive for Clenbuterol Prior to 2021 Positives In April, news emerged that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for banned substance trimetazidine months prior to the Tokyo Olympics, but their test results were never publicly disclosed and the athlete...

Pan Zhanle Snares 100 Freestyle Title at Chinese National Games; 13-Year-Old Yu Zidi Topped in 200 Fly The performance wasn't one of the finest of his career, but Pan Zhanle did enough in the 100-meter freestyle on Friday night to capture the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle. The reigning Olymp...

Qin Haiyang With 58.35 Asian Games Record In 100m Breaststroke Prelims; Ji Yuchan Goes 21.84 In 50 Free Qin Haiyang produced the fifth-fastest 100m breaststroke of his career with a 58.35 Asian Games record on the second day of prelims in Hangzhou, China on Monday. Asian Games results The Chinese sw...

Two-time reigning world champ Xu Jiayu picked up a third Olympic berth as he won the 100 back final with a 52.88, which is slower than his best of 51.86 but is quicker than the FINA A cut of 53.85. Xu won silver at the last Olympics in Rio and has won gold at the last two World Championships. His ti...

Olympics: Michael Andrew First, Mitch Larkin Ninth in 200 IM Prelims The X factor in the 200 individual medley wasn’t going to be the absence of Michael Phelps. It wasn’t going to be the changes age has brought to Kosuke Hagino or Daiya Seto. It wasn’t going to be the emergence of Michael Andrew or ...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 7: Cameron McEvoy Aiming to Fight Off Dressel, Proud in 50 Free After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 18...

Paris Olympics, Day 7 Finals: Leon Marchand Dominates 200 IM Final For Fourth Gold, Scares World Record With 1:54.06 The ambitious program that Leon Marchand and coach Bob Bowman mapped out for the Paris Olympics, meant that three days would define if the 22-year-old Frenchman vaulted from the best ...

Chinese Doping Controversy Hovering Over Paris Games Over the past three months, a significant doping controversy has dominated headlines thanks to recent revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) months before the Tokyo Olympics but received no sanction. As athlet...

Men's 200 IM China's Wang Shun heard the roar from the home Chinese crowd in Hangzhou on Tuesday night at the FINA World Short Course Championships in the 200 IM final. Wang led from start to finish to please the Chinese crowd. He won the final with a 1:51.01 to move up to third all-time in the even...

Pre-coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing. Each week leading up to the start of the swimming competition at the FINA world championships, Swimming World will offer medal predictions for the 42 events set to be contested in Kazan, Russia. Commentary by Jeff Commings A lot o...

World Championships Preview — Men's IM: Leon Marchand Gunning for Final Phelps World Record Trailing American Carson Foster heading into the breaststroke leg, Leon Marchand produced the quickest 100-meter split ever in that stroke to put himself within striking distance of a world record. And not ju...

Psych Sheet Posted for FINA Short Course World Championships; Seven Gold Medalists from Tokyo Set to Compete The 2021 FINA Short Course World Championships begin Thursday, December 16 in Abu Dhabi and run for six days, and Omega Timing has posted the entries for all events. The meet was delayed from...